Abstract. Category Theory is introduced as the mathematical model for object-oriented systems which are distributed, heterogeneous, real-time, embedded, and open-ended. Each object...
Abstract. Compatibility of behavior, i.e. the correct ordering of messages, is one of the core aspects for the interaction between services as parts of an inter-organizational busi...
This paper focuses on a framework for representing a team plan and its projections on individual agents. The team plan is represented with a coloured Petri net. Using the implicit...
Deriving test cases from specifications is now recognised as a major application of formal methods to software development. Several methods have been proposed for various formalism...
Abstract. We present a performance modelling case study of a distributed multi-player game expressed in the PEPA nets modelling language. The case study provides a modern complex d...